Tesla’s proxy for its 2026 annual meeting, filed today, confirms that one of its supposedly independent directors now sits on SpaceX’s board. Ira Ehrenpreis, who chairs both Tesla’s compensation committee and its governance committee, joined SpaceX’s b…
“To buy stuff, you can just take a picture of your credit card, drop it in the chat and Grok @Bot will scour the Internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it.” Elon Musk posted that advice on X on Saturday. On Thursday he added a promis…
Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilizing society. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can […]
Britain’s online safety regulator, Ofcom, says it still has concerns about how well X removes illegal hate and terror content. This comes even though X is now reviewing these reports more quickly. In May, X promised to review posts reported through its…
If Elon Musk and SpaceXAI were going to back any Linux distro, it seems obvious they’d back Omarchy. Today it was announced that SpaceXAI would be joining the Omacom Foundation, which oversees Omarchy, as a Founding Corporate Patron and donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens to David Heinemeier Hansson’s Linux project. According to Hansson’s […]
Ten of the biggest AI developers have made, or committed to make, changes to how they handle personal data. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) secured the changes after two years of scrutiny. The data regulator named them on Thursday: Ama…
Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will no longer run only on SpaceX’s own AI models. It will also use models from rivals, including Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno, Musk said in a post on X on Wednesday. “Going forward, @SpaceX will use the best ba…
Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX’s artificial intelligence unit, SpaceXAI, will change its name to SpaceXSI. The plan follows an order from US President Donald Trump directing federal agencies to drop the term “artificial intelligence.” Musk confir…
In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X. To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from “Big Tech Alert,” an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and unfollowing each other. That post noted […]
SpaceXAI is weighing a plan to fold Grok and X into a single subscription with four price tiers, from free to $100 a month. The plan comes from a company document viewed by Bloomberg, whose Edward Ludlow reported it on Wednesday. SpaceXAI is the artifi…